Woureddy (d.1842)

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The painting was acquired by A. W. Franks at the sale of items from the collection of Dr Joseph Barnard Davis (1801–1881) in 1883. Davis, a craniologist, put together a museum which included comparative material from various races.
The artist, Benjamin Duterreau, was of French descent, and emigrated to Australia from England, arriving in Hobart, Tasmania, in 1832. At a time when the original inhabitants were suffering persecution, the Government’s policy was to relocate the Aboriginal population out onto island reservations of which Bruny Island was one.

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Woureddy accompanied G. A. Robinson (1788–1866), who held the post of ‘Protector of Aborigines’, on his expeditions around Tasmania in the 1830s. He is seen here with his hair coated with ritual red ochre. A very similar portrait, dated 1834 and presented by the Government in 1889, is in the Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery.